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Launched from Cays, got a nice halibut, that pic is my avatar now. Wound up with 47 spotted bay bass and 2 halibut. Most were on a cow pie green (match the hatch???) curly tail grub on a 5/16 ounce ball head jig in 9-15' of water. Slow and low (1/2 crank, pause, repeat) retrieve as usual and feeling ...

Took a break from saltwater. Caught some big bass, now im back.

5 in a row. All different tides, different tricks, and different parts of the bay.

Picked the wrong spot yesterday (Sunday the 5th). Only got 16 (I think) spotties while my friends were a half-mile away roping a ton of fish. Also got a few short halibut.....and had a big one hooked for a while.

So if the halibut spits the hook and ends up foul-hooked right in the middle of its ...

Saw large schools of 2" slough anchovies in the harbor I was fishing in today. The clear curly tail grub worked better than anything else I tried (full disclosure: did not try a junebug craw though). I used the same lure as 2 weeks ago when I got the 26.8 lb halibut, lure shown below for reference ...

hey there sdfish, about time I start posting on the new site. wanted to share a pretty awesome catch I made on the paddleboard the other day - an angel shark!

I was fishing around some structure in the southern half of the bay, throwing a double rig with a couple 1/4oz pink tube baits. made a cast ...

[attachment=0]Osprey 2025 2.jpgI was out on Sunday as well. (Video is just coming out today) The ospreys are crazy! Not only did I have the one pull the fish out of my hand, but saw one rob a little kid of his trout at Lake Poway this week as he was pulling it out of the water. Not sure what's up ...

Midnightpass wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:01 am Can you post a link to the video?... Great pic!
Butch

Here is the link to the actual full Youtube Video


Here is the YouTube Short of just that incident

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal ... rk-florida

This is why you don't want to fall overboard. Reminds me of a time off Gaudalupe Island where there was a hot bite with 70 lb yellowfin tuna. Unfortunately the sharks got most of them.

That's a shortfin corvina. CorBina have the downward mouths. Nice haul.

You should get a tee shirt...."I went fly-fishing for corbina and all I got was this lousy stinking corvina."

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Now you got it!!

Good work.

Like the old Fenwick and the Pflueger Medalist. Both are fun to fish.

The Medalist looks like a model 1494 made sometime between 1950 and 1970 in very good condition. I can just make out the "No1494" I think on the frame between the reel foot screws. From about 1970 this what have had ...

Pflueger made some left hand wind versions in several sizes in the 1930s. This was the 15XX series (e.g. 1594, 1596). These are not the same as the 15XX series reels made in china in the 1990s through early 2000's with a rim control spool. By the 1940s through mid 1950's the only left hand wind ...

Most of the rods wearing the Scientific Anglers label over the years have been pretty decent rods. Same with most of their reels. The old SA System glass rods were built on J. Kennedy Fisher blanks I believe. The later graphite rods were made by U.S makers then later in Asia. The Scientific Angler ...

Good Question. I have a simple answer for you. You (and anyone else reading this) can wade through the following and skip to the end.

Fly line sink rates are generally measured but putting 1 to 2 inches segments in a tub of freshwater in a lab and using a suite of instruments to measure the rate ...

The surfzone is an ever changing environment where the best locations on a beach can change from day to day, tide to tide, or even during a tide. Storm surges or heavy surf alter beaches quite rapidly. Some beaches, or even sections of beaches, will fish better on outgoing tides and others on ...

I prefer to hit these areas on an incoming tide though the top when bait will be pushed up and gamefish follow. On outgoing tide you have the falling tide combined with any outflow that can often produce a pretty fast current that is difficult to fish, and might not have any fish to catch except ...

Macs love sabiki rigs, extremely common to catch them on sabiki rigs

That’s the purpose of sabiki rigs. To make bait, primarily macs

Now the hamster wheel is turning, why were the macks so hot for the Sabiki flies? Is it the super small size, the fact they aren’t moving much (less to chase), the fact they’re six of them so it looks like a school, all of the above? Anyway, I’d like to tie flies like the Sabiki rig and fish a ...